SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

million in revenue and added 10 million active buyers. Starting today, they're going on strike for a week in protest of the price change, which they say is just the latest in a series of decisions that have squeezed the small-business sellers who depend on the Etsy platform to survive. Starting Price. on each sale. What to Know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And measuring activities or output can mislead you into thinking you’re doing a great job. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I’m not a shareholder and I’m not even actively looking at making an investment. Let’s start with what I like most about the product. Their staff can see in real time what’s performing and when a story starts becoming hot they can find out the root causes of what’s driving the traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2019

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. like Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Cameron will share his experience on Search and Social Strategies for Start ups. Topic: Search and Social Strategies for Start ups. Cameron is responsible for SEO and social media across CBS Interactive’s properties, which include CNET, Last.fm, CBS.com, Metacritic, ZDNet, CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, and more.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2011

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2015

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. I was always perplexed at finding fun activities out there to do. What's your background and how did you decide to start the site? It's down in Laguna Beach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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StartUp Beat

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

StartupBeat, founded in 2009 in Los Angeles, is a media company focused on covering startups and why they matter in our lives. From the most innovative tech businesses to the money funding these ventures, we’re devoted to coverage of the startup revolution. Designed For SEO Professionals: $1999. Global Media: $999.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2013

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z. As a starting point you have to realize that investment firms (which a VC is) have management needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. This kind of spend happens all day long inside startup companies and 100% of the spend on attracting customers is a cost. Startup Lessons' ” I’ve given some specific advice on how to do this before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Startups Without a Website Won’t Start ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the results. The solution is basic search engine optimization (SEO). Create inbound and outbound links. Initiate a business blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Do you have a business presence there? Crowdsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. entrepreneur Ric Dragon startup social media business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. So what are the key strategies that can improve the success odds for your online startup? Social media activities require professional effort and time, so beware the hidden costs. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force.

Social Media 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. In fact, after several years of trying, Ive instead started relying on my CTO Forum group and private events (like an upcoming wine tasting). Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

For example, non-computer types should consider delegating their social media, website, and SEO activities. It always starts with trust. Set a definite task completion date and a follow-up system. In this way you can check up on progress before the final deadline, without fuzzy questions like “How are you doing?”

Entrepreneur 52

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Highlighting the problem, and the solution, I just found a new book, “ Making Websites Win ,” by Dr.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For example, Harley Davidson now has to snap up “harleydavidson.motorcycles” in addition to harleydavidson.com. starting when a new gTLD is created and ending when the general public can register a domain in it) is called the “sunrise period.” This window of time (i.e.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu. What’s keeping you up at night? What are you working on now?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Armed with a degree in Marketing and Business from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an Operations experience from Ireland, UAE and Egypt , Ciaran Connolly, 36 teamed up with Ernist Turdubaev 33, with a Master of Arts – Retail and Government Sector to launch ProfileTree. What is ProfileTree? What inspired you?

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve spent almost 20 years starting businesses and helping hundreds of clients, colleges & friends start theirs. I created this resource to have the single most comprehensive guide anywhere on all the different items involved in starting a business. Set up your computer and network. Recommended. Recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. Understanding what lights up actions from your social campaigns and earned media is the key to improving future performance. Startup Advice' End of story. Which followers drove your RTs that drove your clicks.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!

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